Beyond Yacht Rock: AOR Bangers

Yes! Few (if any) are digging deeper into this world than the UCave crew. And they’ve generously made Discogs lists for every volume. Love those guys.

https://www.discogs.com/user/universalcave/lists

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Robin Trower with the ambient intro

Lesser-known Alessi, featuring Andy Newmark AND Steve Gadd on drums

Cheap and lovely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-52i1z4u6o

Private synthy jammer with the BEST cover

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that pages - clearly kim track is damn fine

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great link.thanks man!

https://youtu.be/uWgJyJNcMIQ The best

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https://youtu.be/k8f7Kl36Vxo

https://youtu.be/JzgZypCajNc

https://youtu.be/ZdzC-3UPKbk

Classics!!!

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Indeed! First song I ever learned to play on guitar, first track on my first proper DJ mix, and one of the first edits I ever made :smiley:

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Here’s another bit of Loggins and Messina, I love this one , it starts and ends fairly standardly but the middle 5 minutes is a brilliantly crazy psychedelic bayou freakout!
https://youtu.be/w9iTjVfh558

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This counts:

https://youtu.be/i5_Rf7phgmI

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Ooo, and this one:

https://youtu.be/-uN13zPpl8Y

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https://youtu.be/Sx2w55FK6ow

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https://youtu.be/kFez0-bULgA

https://youtu.be/1q0fLJ-BeYY

https://youtu.be/AGMmmemkPPg

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Kenny Loggins- This Is It (1979) - Big end of the night AOR banger :slight_smile:

https://youtu.be/U8SSdyflGN4

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love love love this genre and everything adjancet. i never get sick of even the most famous top 10 hits. perfect sound for spring (if it ever shows up)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ifzpCzZ3OY

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here come the Yacht Rock Cops :rofl:

Kenny ‘Dope’ Loggins

Toto
https://youtu.be/aBC9RPpY7rw

Brian Protheroe

David Crosby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1jo1gI0kJI

Michael Franks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX4sVYTVx7A

Matthew Larkin Cassell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLOJ1gi5E0U

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Greatest ever for me. I’ll play this till I die.

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Discovered some nice tunes today, thanks all! A few other favoritesh of mine:

https://youtu.be/oj9S6cmP9HI

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Yacht king Daryl Dragon (aka The Captain aka Rumbo) and his brothers bringing the goods. DJ Food put together a killer comp of unreleased Dragons material on Ninja Tune called BFI in 2007 which is already hard to find.

https://youtu.be/RGlh-OF5-nc

Massively underrated tune from the Beach Boys

https://youtu.be/coiD2bslqCs

a secret weapon (shhhh…don’t tell anybody)

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